If thats how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that whats left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). – Barbara Ehrenreich
Thats free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you dont even have to be a player to lose. – Barbara Ehrenreich
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. – Barbara Ehrenreich
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. – Barbara Ehrenreich
Everything youve learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. Theres not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. – Richard Buckminster Fuller